Selected: CO. CORK, CORK, SOUTH MAIN STREET, CHRIST CHURCH OR HOLY TRINITY CHURCH (CI)
| Name: | COLTSMAN, JOHN |
| Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, SOUTH MAIN STREET, CHRIST CHURCH OR HOLY TRINITY CHURCH (CI) |
| Date: | 1718-1720 |
| Nature: | New church to accommodate 2,000 built by JC. FS laid 17 Mar 1718. Cost £3,600. Steeple taken down, 1748. (Internally remodelled and tower removed by G.R. Pain in 1828.) Funds partly raised by levying coal tax. |
| Refs: | Marsh's Library, Dublin, MS Z.2.1.7 (58); Francis H. Tuckey, The County and City of Cork Remembrancer (Cork, 1837), 126,131; J. Windele, Historical and Descriptive Notices of the City of Cork (1849), ?; View of Greencoat Hospital and other charitable organizations in Cork (1721), ? ; APSD 2, C, 147 (entry on Cork by Richard Rolt Brash); Mark Bence-Jones, 'A city of vanished waterways - Cork I', Country Life 142, 3 Aug 1967, 251(illus.) |
| Name: | HOUGHTON, JOHN * |
| Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, SOUTH MAIN STREET, CHRIST CHURCH OR HOLY TRINITY CHURCH (CI) |
| Date: | 1753 |
| Nature: | Monument to Miss Rogers, daughter of Joseph Rogers of Cork. With David Sheehan. |
| Refs: | Faulkner's Dublin Journal, 28-31 Jul 1753; Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 79 |
| Name: | SHEEHAN, DAVID * |
| Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, SOUTH MAIN STREET, CHRIST CHURCH OR HOLY TRINITY CHURCH (CI) |
| Date: | 1753 |
| Nature: | Monument to Miss Rogers, daughter of Joseph Rogers of Cork.With John Houghton. |
| Refs: | Faulkner's Dublin Journal, 28-31 Jul 1753; Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 79 |
| Name: | PAIN, GEORGE RICHARD |
| Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, SOUTH MAIN STREET, CHRIST CHURCH OR HOLY TRINITY CHURCH (CI) |
| Date: | 1826-28 |
| Nature: | GRP wins competition for building same, 1825, and also awarded contract.but only W front (including removal of tower) and internal alts. in Greek style carried out, 1827-28. (Estimated cost £2,888.) Dry rot and other problems by 1831. |
| Refs: | 'Proposed elevations for Christ Church' exhib. Mechanics' Institute Exhibition, Cork, 1828, nos. 87,88; APSD, II, C,147 and VI, P, 7; letter from GRP about church in The Constitution, 12 Apr 1830 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); JCHAS (1943), 31; David Lee & Debbie Jacobs, James Pain, architect (Limerick Civic Trust, 2005), 133-134; Patrick Holohan, 'Cork Courthouse: the Pains, the Deanes, the Stonecutters', JCHAS 111 (2006), 81 |
| Name: | DEANE, THOMAS (SIR) |
| Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, SOUTH MAIN STREET, CHRIST CHURCH OR HOLY TRINITY CHURCH (CI) |
| Date: | 1830 |
| Nature: | TD involved in dealing with outbreak of dry rot after alterations of 1828 by G.R. Pain. |
| Refs: | Paper by Deane publ. in TICEI 2 (1847), 72, and reprinted inB 7, 7 Jul 1849, 321 |
| Name: | LEWIS, JOHN [2] *# |
| Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, SOUTH MAIN STREET, CHRIST CHURCH OR HOLY TRINITY CHURCH (CI) |
| Date: | 1844p |
| Nature: | Monument to Co. George Knapton. |
| Refs: |
Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 57. |
| Name: | WELLAND & GILLESPIE |
| Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, SOUTH MAIN STREET, CHRIST CHURCH OR HOLY TRINITY CHURCH (CI) |
| Date: | 1862 |
| Nature: | Proposed works, including re-pewing. |
| Refs: | Signed drawing(s) dated 1862 in RCB Library, portfolio 8; DB 4, 1 Sep 1862, 224 |
| Name: | HILL, WILLIAM HENRY [1] |
| Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, SOUTH MAIN STREET, CHRIST CHURCH OR HOLY TRINITY CHURCH (CI) |
| Date: | 1877-78 |
| Nature: | Improvements. New semi-circular chancel to be added, organ to be moved from W gallery to NE corner, choir to be moved from gallery to E end; new pulpit, reading desk, lectern. Gallery fronts to be lowered with open iron work. Corporation seat to be moved from N gallery to W gallery (where organ was before). Church reopened 22 Sep 1878. Contr: Barry McMullen. Improvements in progress, Apr 1878; present contract to cost £1,200. At least £600 still required for other necessary things. Alterations almost completed, Jul 1878. Chancel added. New organ by Lewis & Co., London. Church reopened, 22 Sep 1878. |
| Refs: | Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 19, no. 220, Jul 1877, 220; 20, no. 229, 1 Apr 1878, 106; no. 233, 1 Aug 1878, 229; no. 235, 1 Oct 1878, 288; IB 20, 1 Oct 1878, 285. |
| Name: | HEMS, HARRY *# |
| Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, SOUTH MAIN STREET, CHRIST CHURCH OR HOLY TRINITY CHURCH (CI) |
| Date: | 1892 |
| Nature: | Oak reredos and panelling of apse carried out by H.H. under immediate direction of W.H.Hill. |
| Refs: | IB 34, 1 May 1892, 102 |
| Name: | HILL, WILLIAM HENRY [1] |
| Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, SOUTH MAIN STREET, CHRIST CHURCH OR HOLY TRINITY CHURCH (CI) |
| Date: | 1892 |
| Nature: | Oak reredos and panelling of apse carried out by Harry Hems under immediate direction of W.H.H. |
| Refs: | IB 34, 1 May 1892, 108 |